#i hate hockey season

[ppjeterka]

my thoughts re: the main cast of the new nhl amazon docu-series

[nocofamilyau]

total drama moment (4/8)

[rask]

bos vs fla – game 7 [4/30/23]

100 last hug on the ice

[msmargaretmurry]

i say this as an o.ilers hater but huge props to leon for NOT taking a discount and making them spend on him. get paid bitch!!!! literally no idea how mr incapable of a poker face if his life depends on it convinced them he might walk if they didn't empty their wallets but it is very funny to me that he is now for one sweet season the highest paid nhl player. good for him dot gif

[ratatatastic]

"Battle of Alberta, right? It was my first game: Calgary, Edmonton. We would play them in the preseason, and you know—trying to make the team I'd always be asking him to fight in preseason, always. I'd be runnin' my mouth—like, tryna fight the biggest, baddest guys, tryna make an impression.

And he would never fight me. He'd always tell me, like If you make the team, I'll fight ya. You don't have to worry about that, but I'm not fightin' ya preseason. And I totally respect it, I'm not gonna chase him down. It is what it is. He's established—I'm looking for my chance.

So I get called up, we're playing Edmonton in Edmonton: Battle of Alberta. [He's] over there on the other side, and it's like the coolest thing ever... you know, the buildup was crazy 'cuz I knew if the opportunity presented itself—if the game went the way I hoped it would, I would get an opportunity to fight him.

I remembered in warmups tryna skate by the redline initially just kind-of gettin' a feel for it—to see if I have to say something or whatever... He's got no bucket on, his big, bald head is glarin' around, he skates by the redline with the biggest smile on his face, and just gives me the biggest wink...

At that moment I knew Okay, he remembers. It's gonna happen at some point.

We were up 1, I think it was 2-1 going into intermission or whatever—Oh, no, I think it was 1-1 and we had just scored so the position I'm like Yeah, I don't know if I can fight him now because we have the momentum and we're winning the game. I don't want to lose a fight, then we lose a game and now I'm, like, never getting a chance again.

You kind-of gotta play the game within the game like [...] there's an opportunity to fight, and there's an opportunities where you shouldn't fight. Things weren't looking good, then they score and now we need a spark. I'm like Fucking perfect.

I just skate by their bench and I'm like It's time, big boy! He jumps out, we line up, and he goes We squarin' up or we goin' right away?

I'm like I'm not fuckin' squarin' up with you right now! We're goin' right away!

Drop em, we go right away, grab each other. I know he's a lefty so he's gonna let go—let's go of my right arm before he throws one. I threw one. Big boy went down, he jumped back up pretty quick. I don't know, I tell people all the time, I'm like I would've been in the league fuckin' 2 years earlier if there was good footage of this fuckin' fight!

For some reason—For some reason, the cameras cut out. I don't know if [he] had his cousins working the cameras or something that night, or if they're in the video room or what happened.

That was my first NHL game.

It's funny 'cuz Chucky was there—Chucky's there and he knows, he saw, he always laugh when I say that I would've been in the league earlier 'cuz he knows how things like that go. You get a little bit of energy and buzz around ya, and then kind-of momentum takes you a little bit further but unfortunate[ly], I missed that opportunity but I don't regret a thing.

[...]

The opportunity was there, I just—unfortunately, for whatever reason, the Hockey Gods said not yet." (Ryan Lomberg reminiscing over his first NHL game/fight) (x)(x) (please go watch the second link to see lombos giant smile as he tells this story jfc)

and other genuinely bonkers things to say about a hockey player in your first fight... like why did this need to be said like that...what

[nerd-flash]

[hischughes1386]

the devils losing their last game is probably a net positive because it gets them better draft lottery odds but it put me in such a godforsaken foul mood I am so unbelievably over hockey and I hope not to think about it ever again

[supercantaloupe]

what’s a fun fact about you that people may not guess

i am not anyone's idea of athletic. however since my social circle is like 90% other honors student orchestra losers, i technically qualify as a jock given that i have six years of experience playing field hockey

[tungle-scant-sequels]

Ok freak

[thisishowgalaxiescollide]

Happy start of the new season!

I hope your team wins except for when they play my team.

[patrice-bergerons]

I was thanking my friend for pushing me to finally get that US visa appointment yesterday because the process of doing that also opened all these avenues to my past that had been firewalled before, including to hockey, and he said I've been pushing you for ages I think you did it now because you were finally ready.

And it is like he is so right. But I also wish the instigating incident that finally made me face the trauma of that move wasn’t Bergy's retirement you know?

[bsaka7]

sorry the funniest thing about hockey is that they really make these guys play in. des moines. st paul. loser ass sports cities.

[atwhughesversion]

it’s possible that i’m the tiniest bit stressed about the Demko Situation™️

[muirneach]

okay heres mine. honestly i dont think this is super accurate but the top ten is more or less accurate i think

[3416]

takes like this are just so incredibly intangible and ridiculous to me, and the fact that that's all bozos on sports twitter can come up with as any sort of 'test' game in and game out is just............ you lack braincells...